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Supply Chain

prnewswire | April 20, 2023

project44, the connective tissue of the global supply chain, today announced Nissan Motor Company ("Nissan") has partnered with project44 to enhance its resilient global logistics network. As one of the world's leading automotive manufacturers, Nissan will use the Movement by project44 platform to gain end-to-end supply chain visibility, improving operational efficiency by quickly mitigating disruptions. Tokyo and Yokohama have been experiencing a nearly 50% increa...

Freight

Supply Chain Dive | January 21, 2021

The pace of moved cargo at transshipment ports expanded 37% MoM in December, as indicated by the most recent figures from Ocean Insights. "Of the 20 global ports for which Ocean Insights collates data, 75% saw an increase in the levels of rollover cargo in December compared to the previous month," Ocean Insights' COO Josh Brazil said in a statement. In the interim, shippers are additionally managing an expanded pace of blanked sailings to begin 2021. B...

Supply Chain Dive | May 28, 2020

The future of last-mile logistics could be a hybrid truck and drone model, but there are significant regulatory barriers keeping it from becoming a reality in the near future, according to a paper published May 16 by Matthias Winkenbach, the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's (MIT) Megacity Logistics Lab, and Farri Gaba, a research assistant at the university.Deploying drones on traditional delivery vehicles would allow parcels to be distributed simultaneously. The dr...

Supply Chain

Nulogy | December 03, 2021

Nulogy and OMP have signed an accord to jointly deliver digital solutions for multi-enterprise connected supply chains in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. The new partnership allows the two companies to deploy their extensive expertise more effectively to bring value to CPG brand communities. OMP Unison Planning™ optimizes supply chain operations within an organization—from sales and operations to logistics and procurement—ensuring the...